Thread: Turkey time

I was always told May until September - re time of year which echo's what rushy was saying, Any month without a R in it.

Shot - well Sunday we used SP #2 lead 36's and #3 Lead 40's, and that went well. Back in may I could stand on their wings pull the legs and they'd split along the center of the chest and throw all the guts out the other way in front of you. Easy then to cut the breast off and fold the legs through the skin and a simple snip of the drumstick with secateurs and cut the tendon to the ball joint in the hip and done! Saw it on Youtube for pheasants. Super quick if you have quite a few...

However this time either the skins got tougher or I've got weaker. Couldn't get it to break for anything so handfuls of feathers later and some deft knife work all done - but certainly not the easy way it was back in May. Anyone else tried this? Thinking It might be and excuse for some kind of motorised winch more power!!!!

But the birds were really golden and had heaps of body fat right through - must have been a easy winter or they've feasted on maize since autumn. Cant wait to try it.....